Season 2
Summary:
With most of the problems that faced them in season one behind them, the Camden family welcomes season two of 7th Heaven with a joyous occasion, as Rev. Eric Camden (Stephen Collins) and his wife, Annie (Catherine Hicks), renew their marital vows on their 19th anniversary. Elsewhere, oldest son Matt (Barry Watson) opts to attend nearby Crawford University rather than the more prestigious University of Tennessee; Mary (Jessica Biel) slowly recovers from her accident and draws closer to her platonic boyfriend, Wilson West (Andrew Keegan); Lucy (Beverley Mitchell) has reached the age where she actually can choose amongst her beaux; the Camdens briefly take in a French exchange student (Steven Roy) as a boarder, only to regret it when the visitor introduces the kids to the “pleasures” of smoking; and the original owners of the Camdens’ dog, Happy, demand that their pet be returned immediately. Season two ends with the remarkable revelation that the number of children in the Camden household will soon be increased by six…or maybe more. All Movie Guide
7th Heaven Season 2 Episode Guide:
Season 2, Episode 22 – Aired: 5/11/1998
Eric and Annie are shocked and devastated to learn that Mary might be pregnant, but there’s a even bigger twist to the story that nobody counted on. Simon and Ruthie are distraught when Happy’s original owners come to claim him, and Matt is concerned that the household will fall apart if he leaves to begin a summer training program in Washington, DC. Meanwhile, Annie’s father Charles surprises everyone with some news, and another unexpected announcement promises dramatic changes for the entire Camden family.
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Season 2, Episode 21 – Aired: 5/4/1998
Eric and Annie are concerned that Wilson and Mary are spending too much time together, but things don’t get really ugly until Matt makes a shocking discovery about them. Lucy is upset when her two former boyfriends team up to follow Eric around at work for a class project. Ruthie resents Matt for his decision to go away to college, and Simon trains Happy for a dog food commercial – with disastrous results.
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Season 2, Episode 20 – Aired: 4/27/1998
Eric asks Matt to take his friend’s daughter to the senior prom, but he is unaware of her tainted style and her being a harlot. Eric gets “Snappy the Stegosaurus” tickets from his ex-girlfriend for Ruthie. Meanwhile, Simon is uncomfortable after viewing a school film on the ‘facts of life’ while Ruthie learns the truth about her costume character hero. Also, Mary and Lucy trick their way into a date with boys they don’t know, but the joke’s on them.
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Season 2, Episode 19 – Aired: 4/13/1998
Eric tries to unravel the mystery surrounding a young homeless girl, Sarah James, that Simon brings home who’s lost. Eric tries to help her and her alcoholic father, Joe James. Matt delights the prospect of going away to college. Matt says he needs personal space when having a older woman sleep-over. Also, sharing a room begins to fuel differences between Mary and Lucy.
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Season 2, Episode 18 – Aired: 4/6/1998
After Eric agrees to take in a French exchange student (Guy) as a temporary border, no one but Ruthie suspects the young man is actually a con artist. Suave and romantic, the border attracts both Mary and Lucy after he flirts with them. Simon and Ruthie get sick when they try to smoke Guy’s cigarettes. Also, Guy steals Matt’s date. Lastly, Eric and Annie discover e-mail and chat-rooms on Guy’s laptop computer and begin a romance with each other over the internet.
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Season 2, Episode 17 – Aired: 3/2/1998
Lucy is very eager to be friends with a classmate named Sarah and her older sister Jen. Eric and Annie don’t want their daughter driving with people they don’t know, but they reluctantly agree to let them go out for pizza together. Later, when the three girls change plans without consulting their parents, they all live to regret it. Elsewhere, Simon is unhappy with Ruthie’s decoration choices for the bedroom that they previously shared, and Mary agrees to baby-sit the young son of her former boyfriend.
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Season 2, Episode 16 – Aired: 2/26/1998
When Eric helps his friend Reverend Morgan Hamilton secretly meet up with his wife’s ex-husband Kevin, they are shocked at the outcome that he’s paralyzed from the waist down. While covering for the Hamiltons’ daughter, Keesha, Lucy unexpectedly goes on a double date with them. Soon Annie and Patricia bust the girls when taking Ruthie and Lynn to the movies. Back at school, Mary clandestinely dates one of Lucy’s classmates.
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Season 2, Episode 15 – Aired: 2/9/1998
Convinced that she’ll fail in her basketball comeback, Mary develops a horrible attitude making her quite unpleasant. Eric laments that Mary never talks to him anymore. Lucy is excited over the prospect of her best friend Suzanne coming to visit, until she learns Suzanne ran away from home. Afraid of his science teacher, Ms. Hunter, Simon loses his confidence in his ability to complete a class project and feigns illness to avoid it. Also, Ruthie is fearful of her first field trip thinking that she’ll get lost from the group.
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Season 2, Episode 14 – Aired: 2/2/1998
Eric helps a single mother named Harriet and her son Clarence to try to convince the IRS that she shouldn’t be responsible for her ex-boyfriend’s enormous debts. Annie confronts the kids about their lack of good manners after an incident at a “Free Sunday Blue-Collar Special Lunch” at a restaurant. The kids do not take Annie seriously and fool around. Meanwhile, Matt accuses Mary and Lucy of placing a personal ad in his name in the school newspaper for a date. Also, Simon and Ruthie try to figure out how to pay off Happy’s accidental credit card and purchase.
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Season 2, Episode 13 – Aired: 1/26/1998
Lucy must choose between her new boyfriend Rod and her former boyfriend Jimmy Moon after he is dumped by his old girlfriend Ashley, and wants Lucy back. While Lucy makes her decision, the rest of the Camden children are making bets to which guy Lucy will choose. Eric and Annie are at odds when they help newly married couples communicate with each other, but end up getting into a big fight themselves when discussing their burial plot arrangements within their own families. Also, a visit from Annie’s father stirs up further problems in the Camden household when he arrives without Ginger after recently breaking up due to his hair piece (toupee).
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Season 2, Episode 12 – Aired: 1/19/1998
Eric and Annie try not suspecting the worst when they discover money missing from the church treasury and all the evidence points to Lou, the church treasurer. Later, they all find out it is for his disabled son who was kicked out of his home and needs to find a new one. Believing that Coach Koper has more than basketball on his mind where Mary’s concerned, Matt and Lucy risk alienating their sister to discover the truth. Also, Simon lets the game of golf overwhelm his life and ends up breaking a lot of things.
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Season 2, Episode 11 – Aired: 1/12/1998
Lead, Follow or Get out of the Way
Eric’s no-nonsense father, John “The Colonel” (guest star Peter Graves) returns when he learns an array of problems in the Camden household. Mary is jealous of a new member of the basketball team who is getting a lot of the attention. Lucy’s declining grades are due to her hanging around with a bad crowd, while Ruthie needs to copy Simon in his quest to be a magician. Meanwhile, Eric is oblivious to all of the family troubles around him as he’s preoccupied with writing a sermon that is to be covered by a camera crew. Meanwhile, Annie is doing all the chores at home and at church alone while everyone else is doing their own thing.
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Season 2, Episode 10 – Aired: 11/24/1997
Mary coerces Matt into asking his friend Brian (guest-star Jason Behr) to take her out on a date despite his lack of interest in her. Although, things begin to heat up between the two kids while on the date—but ultimately ends in disaster after Mary finds out the truth. Meanwhile, Lucy is invited to a sleepover of popular girls, but Lucy is unaware of the group’s real intentions for inviting her. Also, Simon begins to teach Ruthie how to swim without taking lessons. Lastly, Eric becomes convinced he’s fat and thinks he’s getting away with cheating on his diet.
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Season 2, Episode 9 – Aired: 11/17/1997
Simon takes an active interest in the devastating past of Mrs. Kerjesz, a friend of Eric’s who is also a survivor of the Holocaust. Despite Eric’s warnings to respect the woman’s privacy, Simon is eager to use Mrs. Kerjesz’s story for a school project, but he is about to be taught a harsh lesson about the horrible pain of another human being. Elsewhere, Mary and Lucy ridicule Matt’s new girlfriend for her beauty and intelligence, then find themselves in an awkward situation when she overhears their conversations. Even little Ruthie learns about the true power of hurtful words when she reacts badly to a punishment from her mother.
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Season 2, Episode 8 – Aired: 11/10/1997
Against Eric’s advice, Matt takes a job caring for a dying boy named Steve. Annie goes into the muffin-making business after being convinced by her daughters Mary and Lucy. Annie goes into business with a cookie shop owner, David Friel who’s looking to expand his profits, although it’s much harder work for Annie than what she had originally anticipated. Also, Ruthie teaches Simon a tough lesson about the art of being a salesperson when being his competition in selling greeting cards.
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Season 2, Episode 7 – Aired: 11/3/1997
A friend of Simon’s confides in him about his self-destructive older sister, who is a member of an exclusive gang. Simon promises to keep Stan’s secret, but things get messier once all the Camdens become involved. Meanwhile, Ruthie frustrates her family with a question that is difficult to answer, and Lucy declares her independence by donning a very questionable wardrobe at the mall.
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Season 2, Episode 6 – Aired: 10/20/1997
The Camden kids get a lesson in love as Wilson decides to call it a quits with Mary. Simon is obsessed with getting his first girlfriend, while Ruthie learns the do’s and don’ts of kissing on the school playground. Matt receives devastating news from his girlfriend Heather, which leads him on a long journey to Philadelphia. Meanwhile, Lucy laments over being single until she accidentally gets close to the school hunk.
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Season 2, Episode 5 – Aired: 10/13/1997
One of the members of Eric’s congregation, Mrs. Bink persuades him to investigate the real reason of why her best friend Mrs. Hinkle is moving into a retirement home. Meanwhile, Simon and Ruthie are performing an experiment and are trying to convince Matt that Simon is shrinking, but the tables suddenly turn for Simon. Also, Lucy tries to get to the bottom of one of her classmates, Shelby as she is rumored all over school of being bulimic.
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Season 2, Episode 4 – Aired: 10/6/1997
Eric stumbles across marijuana in the house and is immediately convinced that it belongs to Matt. Annie urges her husband to not be so sure of himself, and as they subtly attempt to wiggle the truth out of their children, Annie stuns Eric with a troubling confession of her own. Meanwhile, Lucy introduces her sketchy new boyfriend to the family, and Simon gives Ruthie her first laundry lesson.
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Season 2, Episode 3 – Aired: 9/29/1997
Simon and Ruthie are used to going through Matt’s private stuff, but they send the entire Camden household into a tailspin when they find a shocking letter that Matt has written to his girlfriend. Mary wants desperately to reach a new level with Wilson, and she is furious to learn his reaction. Lucy bonds with an insecure classmate, who feels unloved by her cold and rigid mother.
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Season 2, Episode 2 – Aired: 9/22/1997
Now that little Ruthie is starting first grade, the Camden children are all officially in school all day…and Eric and Annie are planning to celebrate big-time. Unfortunately, everything changes when Eric is called to assist a potentially suicidal teenager and his overbearing single mother, and all five Camden kids run into trouble on their first day of school.
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Season 2, Episode 1 – Aired: 9/15/1997
In the second season-opener, Eric and Annie decide to renew their vows in a lavish ceremony at their church, which doesn’t exactly thrill the kids. Ruthie isn’t interested in the typical little-girl attire for the big event, and Lucy has trouble deciding whether to invite her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend. Matt tries making the most of his time with Heather before she leaves for college. Mary, who is still recovering from her extensive knee injury, gains the confidence to ditch her crutches in a most unconventional way. Lastly, on the day of his vow renewal, Eric assists a woman as she seeks closure with an imprisoned man who murdered her husband years ago.